cataplasm
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However, shalt have a good biting cataplasm for thy leg; meantime keep we the body cool: put out thy tongue!-good!-fever.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
A Water-cress cataplasm applied cold in a single layer, and with a pinch of salt sprinkled thereupon makes a most useful poultice to heal foul scrofulous ulcers; and will also help to resolve glandular swellings.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Compare Hamlet IV 7 145, “no cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon.”
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
With this fragrant herb she made a cooling cataplasm.
From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
Here, one with a bruised limb is receiving a cataplasm; there, a cataleptic patient is tenderly cared for; and so on, through the long concatenation of feline diseases.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor
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